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Also Known As	life instinct

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sexual motivation eros thanatos personality ego id superego psychological development five-factor model of personality personality disorder hubris temperament self humour

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Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud

Austrian psychoanalyst

Abraham, Karl

Karl Abraham

German psychoanalyst